Googling Toronto

Since its official launch in August 2008, Google Suggest has been fuelling a new auto-complete meme that has taken off on social sites like Digg and Reddit and even encouraged news sites like Slate to take a pseudo-sociolinguistic look at Google’s most popular searches. What we search can tell us a lot about who we are, so we thought it would be funny illuminating to use Google Canada’s version of Suggest to find and dissect common queries about Toronto.

Go Leafs Go?

UofT is the Place To Be!

The Idiot Syndrome

Google Suggest can also provide useful information about local and federal politicians.

American Stylez

Of course, Google.com, which is mostly fed by U.S. queries, has its own flavour. We don’t remember what state Toronto is in, but we’ll write our congressperson and find out. And as for the city’s providence, we always suspected that Toronto was blessed by God.